Computational biology

Amin Allam (CEMSE PhD) wins the second prize in the DREAM Challenge 1B

1 min read · Mon, Aug 15 2016

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Amin Allam (CEMSE PhD student in the InfoCloud group) supervised by Prof Panos Kalnis has won the second prize in the AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination Prediction DREAM Challenge 1B. Amin Allam utilized Bayesian inference to achieve the 2nd place.

Amin Allam

Ph.D., Computer Science

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Amin Allam obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the supervision of Prof. Panagiotis Kalnis in 2017. Amin is a lecturer in the Computer Science department, Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Egypt. He got his bachelor's degree in Computers and Information in 2003 from Cairo University. Then, he got a Master's degree titled "An Arabic-Disambiguating Engine Based on Statistical Approaches" in Computer Science from the same university in 2008. Research Interest Amin's research interests include